. >> reporter: tom evans part of the team of meteorologists who staff the national weather service headquarters in monterey from their satellites, they can monitor the world's storms. >> stronger tropical cyclones, name them hurricanes. when we are talking about the eastern north pacific we call them typhoons when they cross the dateline and go into the western north pacific. >> reporter: they go by other names as well, usually when when you're running away from them. in the northern hemisphere they spin counterclockwise, clockwise in the southern helps fee. >> that has to do with the coriolis effect allowing the wind to curve. in this case we get a curve to the right away from the north pole toward the equator. >> reporter: i need your good questions, send them to me at cbs5.com. >> not enough warm water for a hurricane around here. >> no. our water temperature is around 51 degrees. inside the bay 55. big doings going on all across the bay area but one we really want to highlight is miss dana king's event. >> oh, come on. i'm not at the sausalito art festival but there is a lot of art in sausa